8.29.2016

Too Short for a Blog, Too Long for a Tweet XLIII

Here's an excerpt from a book I'm reading, "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," by Siddhartha Mukherjee:

It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a
nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a
potential carcinogen, and even the bare hint of a substance's link to
cancer ignites a firestorm of public hysteria and media anxiety - one of
the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely
bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars